What is another word for Scrawling?

Pronunciation: [skɹˈɔːlɪŋ] (IPA)

Scrawling is a verb that refers to the hasty, messy and illegible writing of letters or words. To describe this activity using another word, we could use synonyms such as scribbling, jotting, doodling, or scratching. Scribbling implies a hurried and careless style of handwriting often used for taking notes or making rough drafts. Jotting denotes writing down a few words or phrases to remember something. Doodling suggests drawing random pictures or designs alongside disorganized writing. Scratching conveys a rough and quick manner of writing that is often difficult to read. All of these synonyms are used to describe the same activity, a quick and messy style of handwriting.

What are the hypernyms for Scrawling?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Scrawling

His first practice had been gained in Scrawling faces in his copybooks, and expanding the notes of his musical texts into figures with arms and legs.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He sprang up, stepped across the room, put his finger on the spot where Limber Tim had stood Scrawling with his big pencil the day he was so embarrassed at Sandy's wedding, and shouted out- "Look here!
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
That of my sister-in-law I was not so familiar with, though my brother recognized it as that of his wife, but that of our brother was a perfect reproduction down to the smallest accidents, and that which was given as the responses of my cousin equally so, and executed with a rapidity of which I was incapable-a large Scrawling hand, that of our brother being of a character entirely opposed, slowly and laboriously formed, with occasional omissions of the last line of a final n, quite common in his writing.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman

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